Chapter 7. Building a Twitter clone

 

This chapter covers

  • Developing a Twitter clone in Nim
  • Storing and querying for data in a SQL database
  • Generating HTML and sending it to the user’s browser
  • Deploying your web application

Web applications have become extremely popular in recent years because of their convenience and the widespread use of web browsers. Many people have taken advantage of this to become millionaires, developing the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Google.

Large web applications consisting of many components are typically written in several different programming languages, chosen to match the requirements of the components. In most cases, the core infrastructure is written in a single language, with a few small specialized components being written in one or two different programming languages. YouTube, for example, uses C, C++, Java, and Python for its many different components, but the core infrastructure is written in Python.

Thanks to the great speed of development that Python provides, YouTube was able to evolve by quickly responding to changes and implementing new ideas rapidly. In specialized cases, C extensions were used to achieve greater performance.

7.1. Architecture of a web application

7.2. Starting the project

7.3. Storing data in a database

7.4. Developing the web application’s view

7.5. Developing the controller

7.6. Deploying the web application

7.7. Summary